GM Moving is seeking to recruit an individual with purpose, passion, and integrity to lead, support and connect the Greater Manchester system in creating the conditions to enable Active Lives for All.
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: £40,777 - £48,226 p.a. (NJC Spine Points 30 – 37). Salary to be at entry-level except for exceptional circumstances.
Contract: 1 year fixed term (maternity cover)
Greater Manchester Moving is the Greater Manchester charity committed to changing lives by inspiring a healthier future in Greater Manchester through moving more, sport, and physical activity. We play a strategic leadership role in support of the Greater Manchester wide movement, for movement.
It’s an exciting time to join the team as we develop our vision to build and foster relationships with and between people, communities and system partners, to enable a whole system approach to supporting the development of community networks, activities and opportunities to move more and tackle inequality.
We are looking for someone who loves working with people, who can unite people from diverse backgrounds around a vision, who understands the power of collaboration and who can work with others to help people connect, support and lead across sectors, organisations and alongside communities to help us achieve the ambitions set out in the ten-year strategy, GM Moving in Action.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high performing Active Partnership team working with a network committed to making positive change through movement, physical activity and sport.
This is a full-time role (37 hours per week), but job shares, secondments and reduced hours will be considered as part of our commitment to flexible working. Working days will predominantly be Monday to Friday. Our team works a minimum of two days a week in person, and our core office day is Tuesday. Occasional evening/weekend work may be required.
We have permanent office space at House of Sport in Manchester, and office space with GMCA and NHS GM at Tootal Buildings, Oxford Road, Manchester. We have regular team and co-working days, blended with homeworking. We trust you to work in a way that suits you and that enables you to be productive and thrive.
Greater Manchester Moving is committed to providing equal opportunities and promoting diversity, irrespective of ethnicity, age, gender identity, sexuality, disability, religion, pregnancy or personal circumstance. We aspire to being a diverse, inclusive and responsible organisation. Our aim is to have a workforce that reflects and understands the communities we work alongside.
The Recruitment Pack (which includes the Job Summary), Application Form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form, are available to download from our website. Please complete your personal statement with close reference to the Our Ideal Candidate section of the Job Summary.
Closing date for applications: Sunday 31 May 2026 (midnight)
Interview date: Monday 15 June 2026 (possible alternate date Thursday 18 June 2026) - If you are unable to attend the scheduled interview date, please highlight this in your application when submitting.
No CVs or agencies.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Greater Manchester Moving is GM’s movement for movement working together to positively change the lives of people across Greater Manchester.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Elrha is a global organisation that finds solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation.
We are looking to recruit a Research & Innovation Manager (Collaborative Partnerships) to join our Programmes team on a fixed-term basis. This is an exciting opportunity for a technically-minded professional with a passion for health research and developing collaborative research and innovation initiatives. You will be leading the scoping, co-design and coordination of the Humanitarian Health and Climate Collaborative Learning Partnerships (HHCC) and supporting the mortality estimation work.
In this role you will provide senior oversight of multi-stakeholder partnerships, ensuring high-quality co-design, collective learning and positive partner engagement, acting as the primary operational contact for implementation partners. Contribute to the development and positioning of Elrha’s partnership frameworks and approaches under the leadership of the Head of Humanitarian Futures.
Your application will need to demonstrate:
- Experience managing complex, multi-year research and innovation partnerships, including coordinating delivery, supporting capacity strengthening and knowledge exchange, managing risk, and ensuring high-quality outputs.
- Strong understanding of research methods and evidence generation in humanitarian or global health contexts, with the ability to assess research quality and translate findings into practical policy or operational guidance.
- Knowledge of localisation, equitable partnerships, and ethical research practice, including safeguarding, diversity, and inclusion considerations.
- Excellent relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills, including experience working with donors and representing programmes externally.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce accessible outputs for technical and non-technical audiences.
- A postgraduate qualification in public health, international development, non-communicable diseases, or another relevant field, or equivalent professional experience.
If you want to be part of an organisation that creates positive change in the humanitarian sector, then join us and we’ll give you every opportunity to succeed.
We offer:
- Remote working as standard – staff can access office bases in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester if required/ appropriate. We expect staff to attend team meetings and away days in person as required.
- As standard we work 35 hours per week. We are also happy to discuss flexible working patterns and many of our staff work non-standard working hours.
- Our benefits include minimum 5% employer pension contribution (3% employee contribution), life cover, organisational sick pay, family friendly pay and leave schemes; 26-day basic annual leave entitlement with incremental increase depending on length of service, opportunities for learning and development, a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and retail discounts platform.
- Please read through the Information for Candidates document for further information about working at Elrha including information about Our Values, Strategy, Benefits and Salaries.
Note for applicants:
- Candidates must have the independent right to work in UK, and be resident in the UK, at the time of appointment as we are unable to support visa sponsorship for this role.
- Please read through the job description for a detailed list of requirements and ensure you complete the personal statement to explain how you feel you meet the requirements of the role and why you feel this is next career move for you. Applications without this information will not be shortlisted.
- Elrha is an independent subsidiary of SCUK and benefits from some SCUK systems and processes.
- We reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a very high volume of applications.
- We do not use recruitment agencies.
Closing date:3rd of June
Interview dates:16th and 17th of June
Registered Charity
21 - 50
A global organisation that finds solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.